Manual gate level crossing on the North West route (ELR DSE).
| 02:18 | 6E61 | 🚛 | TUEBGBF → ATTRGBR | → from Wigan North Western | -15 min |
On today’s timetable, Astley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 57 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 101 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 14 minutes. Freight paths scheduled “as required” — most don’t run on any given day — aren’t counted here; when one does run, the live timeline above shows it.
Longest closure so far today: 6.6 min (01:10–01:17, 2 trains), timed from trains actually seen on the signalling wire — the window edges use the same per-type margins as the forecast, since barrier positions aren't in any feed we can read.
Closures cluster around 07:49–08:49 in the morning and around 16:45–17:45 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Astley is a manual gate crossing (MG) on the Manchester Oxford Road–Wigan North Western line (North West route · ELR DSE). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road ahead of each train. Forecasts here combine the working timetable with live train-movement data (and live signalling where the crossing has it), so they reflect actual running including delays and freight — though they can still be wrong when the network is disrupted.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 20 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±23s (9 in 10 within 305s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.